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Arts

Oldtone Roots Music Festival Is A Fun New Frolic

Lauren Ambrose and Kip Beacco at 2015's festival By Amy Krzanik As the Duke Ellington song says, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” and the Oldtone Roots Music Festival does got that swing, and that bluegrass, that old-time country, as well

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Community

The Rural We: David Voorhees

Retired NYU history professor David William Voorhees is the director of both the Jacob Leisler* Institute for the Study of Early New York History and the Jacob Leisler Papers Project, headquartered in Hudson. He’s also managing editor of de Halve Maen (The Half Moon), a quarterly scholarly journal published

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Food

Recipe: Pasta With Cherry Tomato Sauce

One of our favorite events every summer is The Sylvia Center’s Farm-to-Table dinner, hosted by Great Performances in the fields of Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook, N.Y. The mission of The Sylvia Center is to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands-on learning experiences on

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Community

Weekend Of Wheels At Lime Rock (And A Parade, Too)

Photos courtesy Lime Rock Park. By CB Wismar For some, they are exquisite rolling sculptures – the finest representation of the designer’s art. For others, they’re nothing more than a necessity, like electricity and cable TV. Then there’s the group that just finds them a nuisance — members of

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Parties

The Thrill of the Grill: Eating And Competing At Grillsdale

Lisa Green reports from Hillsdale. Like moths to a flame, a parade of cars veered off Route 22 to the Roeliff-Jansen Park in Hillsdale, NY on Saturday, Aug. 27. Why? Because there were flames a-plenty at the first-ever Grillsdale produced by Shire 935 Productions and sponsored by many local and

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Parties

Shaker-Style Summer Soiree

Rachel Louchen reports from New Lebanon. Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon'sGreat Stone Barn was the focal point of the annual benefit dinner, Visualizing the Museum's Future, on Saturday, August 27.  This year's benefit honored museum supporters Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry, creators of the off-Broadway

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Real Estate

Modern Interpretation

This is a renovated 1900 Victorian in Hudson with 2,1000 square feet of living space. It has a well-proportioned living room, dining room with fireplace and a high-end kitchen with professional grade appliances and marble, and opens up to a deck for entertaining. Upstairs there is a large, vaulted

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Real Estate

Rural Retreat

A rural road in Ancram leads to this house, located in a peaceful setting with far reaching mountain views of the Catskills. The three-bedroom, three-and-one-half bathroom main home was built in 2007 and has geothermal radiant heating throughout as well as central air. There is a kitchen with ceramic tile

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Real Estate

Copake Revival

Built in 1820, the E. W. Sweet House is a carefully restored Greek Revival in Copake with original details and custom cabinetry throughout. The four-bedroom, three-and-one-half bathroom home has a fully equipped modern kitchen with quartz counters. The house offers a wood stove, two fireplaces, dining room, living room and

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Real Estate

Manor House

This sophisticated European-style manor house gives off serious Downton Abbey vibes on 43 lush park-like acres overlooking a long range valley view in Old Chatham. The elegant contemporary was designed with superb quality and finishes, with extra amenities and large, light-filled rooms. There are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms including

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Real Estate

Over The Hudson

On more than 13 acres in Stuyvesant, this three-bedroom, two-bathroom main house, three-bedroom guest house, pool house and barn complex also comes with expansive view of the Hudson River. The main home has a huge living room, kitchen, dining/living area with fireplace, formal dining room, den with built-ins and

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Arts

It’s Un Bel Di As We Welcome The Berkshire Opera Festival

By Lisa Green Since the Berkshire Opera Company folded in 2008, opera productions have been conspicuously absent from the performing arts scene in the Berkshires. So when Jonathon Loy and Brian Garman, both accomplished opera directors and conductors, announced plans to form the Berkshire Opera Festival, it wasn’t only

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